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Native Hardwood Lumber from Our Farm in the Heart of Southern Northeast Iowa
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Sugar Maple Lumber Acer saccharum
Sugar Maple, aka Hard Maple, is not exclusively found in postcard depictions of Autumn in New England. It grows just fine here in the Upper Midwest - our woods have quite a bit of it. It isn't as highly prized for lumber production as other species such as Black Walnut or Black Cherry, and it doesn't provide as much benefit to wildlife as many other native tree species. So, sometimes our Maples find themselves on the wrong side of the chainsaw.
Much of the lumber we offer for sale is stained or spalted, which is a nice way of saying it is rotten. Or heading that way. Actually, we think Maple lumber with some degredation and defects is prettier than "unspoiled" Maple. But you will have to judge for yourself!
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for link to spreadsheet of all products. (look for link at bottom of page) (not super-conveinent)
Item #5
Series of 3 boards with a beautiful central spalted area. But be careful, the wood in the stained/spalted area is a bit degraded, it can't sustain significant structural loading. Length 52" Width 7" Thickness 1"
Price $ 50
Item #10
4 nice boards, one witih some staining.
Length 48"-52" Width 4" - 7 1/4" Thickness 15/16" -1"
Price $ 28
Item #14
3 Ok boards, slight cupping and bowing.
Length 52" Width 6" - 7" Thickness 15/16"
Price $ 20
Item #15
Sugar Maple boards in sequence from one log. Stain, cracks, wane, knots, pith. i.e., all possible defects are well represented! But still, they are pretty boards. I think.
Length 48" - 50" Width 8" - 10 1/2" Thickness 1" .
Price $ 115
Item #16
Another set of 5 boards in sequence from the same log, complete with stain, cracks, etc. This lumber is certifiably dead!
Length 52" Width 8 1/2" - 10 1/2" Thickness 15/16"
Price $ 115
Item #26
9 random Sugar Maple boards, they are pretty nice, wider boards have some cupping.
Length 50" - 52" Width 5 3/4" - 8 1/4" Thickness 13/16" - 7/8"
Price $ 58
Item #31
5 Sugar Maples boards, including two matchbooked pairs. Quite a bit of cupping in one pair of boards, overall pretty nice.
Length 55" Width 7 1/2" - 7 3/4" Thickness 7/8"
Price $ 60
Item #33
6 kind of mundane Sugar Maple boards, they are pretty straight, but have some crook
Length 52" WIdth 4 3/8" - 5 3/8" Thickness 7/8"
Price $ 28
Item #34
3 Sugar Maple boards. They have some knots, a little cracking, bowing, staining. But not enough mayhem to really claim they have tons of character.
Length 53" WIdth 6 1/4" - 6 1/2" Thickness 13/16" - 7/8"
Price $ 18 (Dog not included)
Item #35
4 OK to good boards.
Length 53" Width 6 7/8" - 8 1/4" Thickness 7/8" - 1"
Price $ 32
Item #39
No drama, 6 nice straight boards.
Length 53" Width 5 1/8" - 5/3/8" Thickness 13/16" -7/8"
Price $ 25
Item #40
5 Sugar Maple boards. They are quite straight. As with other boards in this neighborhood, the sticker stining should come off with a bit of surfacing.
Length 49" - 53" Width 5 ½" - 7 ¼" Thickness 7/8"
Price $ 35
Item #41
5 Sugar Maples boards, nothing too wrong with them. ( faint praise }
Length 51" - 53" Width 4" - 5" Thickness 7/8"
Price $ 20
Item #42
One pair of "bookmatched" boards, plus a tag-along. Beautiful spalting and staining
(OK, some would call it degradation, I call it brimming with character : )
Not to be used for stair-treads!
Length 54" Width 5½" - 7 ½" Thickness 7/8"
Price $ 30
Item #46
Four boards from a nice Maple tree growing on the southern edge of Scot's Oak Garden that had to come down because it was was shading an excellent stand of young Red Oaks. I cut the trunk into 4'6' segments, and left them on the shaded forest floor for 2 years, covered with leaves and twigs, in an experiment to facilitate spalting. As it turned out, the ends are a bit spalted and a lot rotten, and the rest of the boards don't have much special going on. So chalk this one up to experience Maybe you can find a home for these boards.
Sugar Maple4Length 55" Width 11 1/2" Thickness 1"
Price $ 30
Item #48
Series of 9 big thick boards cut from a Maple that used to live along the northern edge of Slippry Footings forest area. It was girdled in 2008 to make room for an Oak regeneration project. I harvested it in 2014 when it was starting to rot. As I hoped, the boards have pretty nice spalting. Please browse among the photos linked to the thumbnail.
Length 62" Width 14 3/4" Thickness 1 3/4"
Price $ 800
Item #49
Seven boards from the same tree that produced item #48. These boards are from the next log segment up. Here too, nice spalting in many areas, dramatic variation in color/texture. Some of the wood is quite nasty and punky/rotten, but overall, very beautiful boards, waiting for the right project.
Length 61" Width 13 1/2" to 15 1/2" Thickness 1 3/4"
Price $ 480
Item #54
Sugar Maple board brimming with character!
Length 58" Width 6 7/8" Thickness 1 1/4"
Price $ 28
Item #56
Very pretty spalted Maple board, complete with defects. One side surface jointed.
Length 56" Width 7 1/4" Thickness 13/16"
Price $ 30
Item #57
Nice spalted/stained Maple board, complete with bug holes at no extra cost!
It is a bit bowed (3/8" bow over the total length), both sides have been planed.
Length 65" Width 5 1/4" Thickness 1 1/2"
Price $ 25
Item #58
One board, frome same tree as #57, same story. Down-on-his-luck board, makes good in lumber website. Some pretty spalting
Length 65" Width 7 1/2" Thickness 1 1/2"
Price $ 32
Item #59
Same tree as #57 and #58, a little less spalting, some very pretty patterns in the board
Length 65" Width 7 5/8" Thickness 1 1/2
Price $ 34
Item #61
Spalted Sugar Maple, nice patterns in the wood. Some cracking along one side, since it contains the pith of the tree
Length 62" Width 7 1/4" THickness 1 3/8"
Price $ 18
Item #62
Spalted/Stained/Decaying Sugar Maple board. Nice straight board, both sides flat and parallel
Length 59" Width 6 1/4" Thickness 1 5/16"
Price $ 18
Item #63
Another nice spalted Maple board, pretty straight, but gets a bit warped by knot near edge.
Length 58" Width 6 3/4" Thickness 1 1/8"
Price $ 14
